Pencil.



No. 845,320. PATENTED FEB. 26, 1907.

G. A. SMITH.

PENCIL.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.1, 190s.

W I W' n- M ATTORNEY.

THE NORRIS PETERS cc. wuss/"crow, 04 c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. SMITH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO BLAISDELL PAPER PENCIL COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

PENCIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed December 1, 1906- Serial No. 345,892.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs A. SMITH, residing in the city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Pencils, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pencils wherein a sheet of fibrous material having weakened lines is wound around the lead or crayon, so that the pencil can be pointed by unwinding an end strip of the material, which separates from the body along the adjacent line of weakness.

As heretofore constructed, the parallel diagonally-scored lines spirally disposed when wound cause the pencils to have an ob ectionable flexibility or weakness. It has been proposed to correct this defect and provide the requisite stiffness by coating the scored paper with glue or like adhesive; but this 1as proven unsatisfactory.

The present improvements avoid the defects of the prior constructions by rolling an independent sheet of material between the laminations of the scored sheet. so that an independent unscored lamination lies between adjacent scored laminations, providing stiffness while tearing along the line of cleavage of the strips unwound to point the pencils.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a pencil wound with a scored sheet and an unscored sheet laid in position to be wound within the outer laminations thereof, and Fig. 2 shows The penci is composed of the lead or crayon 1, around which is rolled the sheet 2, (preferably of fibrous material, as paper,) hav ng the slight y-diagonal score-lines 3, with the perforations 4 intersecting the lines along the outer edge of the sheet. A sheet 5, prefthe finished pencil in process of being pointed.-

erably of paper, is laid on and rolled with the sheet 2, preferably between the outer laminations only, the section thus inlaid lapping and strengthening the scored sheet along its lines of weakness. The outer edge of the sheet 5 may be glued to the sheet 2, whose outer edge is glued down, so that in starting a strip 2 a strip 5 of the sheet 5 will be lifted therewith, the two being then unwound together with the strip 5, tearing along the line of separation 3 of the strip 2 to point the pencil.

Having described my invention, 1 claim 1. A pencil comprising a rolled sheet of material having spirally-disposed lines of weakness, and a second strengthening-sheet rolled therewith between laminations thereof.

2. A pencil comprising a lead or crayon, a sheet of scored fibrous material rolled thereon, and a second sheet of fibrous material rolled therewith between the outer laminations, said second sheet stiffening said pencil.

3. A pencil comprising a lead or -crayon, a sheet of fibrous material with lines of weakness rolled thereon, and a second sheet of fibrous material without lines of weakness rolled within the outer laminations of said first sheet.

4. A pencil comprising a lead or crayon, a sheet of material with lines of weakness rolled thereon, and a second sheet of material rolled with said first sheet to strengthen it, the outer edges of said sheets being glued.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name, this 24th day of November, 1906, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES A. SMITH.

Witnesses:

Jos. G. DENNY, Jr., CHARLEs N. BUTLER. 

